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Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by LamaOfRuin »

wink wrote: post #91
moss2 wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You don't need Windows for gaming any more. Ubuntu 22.04 comes with graphics drivers. Steam has Steam Play and Lutris has a huge library of install scripts, so everything is handled for you. The one thing you will need to do occasionally is experiment with different Wine distributions. This means you will need to right click on your game and select the distribution from a drop-down box. Exhausting, I know.

If by "gaming" you mean "be able to play a selection of games you might or might not be interested in, in varying states of support and performance", then yes - absolutely true. None of the games I've played recently even are on Steam, so no, your answer is misleading at best. And no, I've not tried it recently on my main machine but I've tried it often enough that my summary is still: Feel free to try it, but many (…

Unless you are playing the competitive games that won't turn on anti-cheat for Linux, this seems statistically incorrect. Valve prioritizes fixes for the most popular games, so the games most people want to play will work (if they are not actively prevented by the publisher as with anti-cheat).

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by sidewndr46 »

hospitalJail wrote: post #94

The final straw for me and Windows was when I took the time to remove some annoying feature, cortana or edge, can't remember. Then an update replaced my work. It wasnt some 'uninstall program', but a multi-step process that involved registry editing. I don't feel like I have control over Windows.

I always love how Windows 10 shows Cortana using something like 0.1% or 0.2% of system CPU even after I disable it. Really what is it doing at that point?

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by sidewndr46 »

__MatrixMan__ wrote: post #119
hospitalJail wrote: post #94

The final straw for me and Windows was when I took the time to remove some annoying feature, cortana or edge, can't remember. Then an update replaced my work. It wasnt some 'uninstall program', but a multi-step process that involved registry editing. I don't feel like I have control over Windows.

I don't know if it's still happening, but for a while windows updates were helpfully "fixing" the EFI boot partition (or maybe it was a boot firmware thing, I never figured it out) by making windows primary and breaking my Linux entry . My friends would be like "do you want to play games?" and I'd be like "yeah hang on while I make some boot media so I can recover afterwards."

Windows 10 updated my laptop's BIOS and in the process reset it to defaults. This basically bricked my laptop. Yeah I know how to go in and set a boot drive again, but not everyone should have to understand how that works.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by scrollaway »

hackernewds wrote: post #167
afiori wrote: post #154

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This is what I want personally. I use different browsers for different things: let me fucking chose which browser to use. I am currently wondering how easy it would be to build a "shim browser" that you can set as default but does not actually open the page, it only list the urls apps tried to open and lets you copy them to whichever browser you prefer.

Seems like a dark pattern. Should have a "Choose this everytime" option, and you and I are both happy

It does.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by shepherdjerred »

Analemma_ wrote: post #23
jeltz wrote: post #11

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That is on iOS, on MacOS they allow other browsers and respect the systemwide defaults. Personally I use Linux unless forced to use something else by my employer.

> That is on iOS, on MacOS they allow other browsers and respect the systemwide defaults. Why is that in any way exonerating? Most people do most of their actual computing on their phones now, it is not an irrelevant toy platform. We should be more, not less, hard on Apple than Microsoft for pulling this shit on their mobile platform.

> Why is that in any way exonerating?

I think you're reading into the parent too much. They were simply stating a fact.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by shepherdjerred »

frob wrote: post #4

Windows is just full of hostile, anti-user patterns these days. I've considered building a windows box just to have a gaming rig multiple times over the last few years, but every time an article like this or their crusade against Chrome reminds me that Bill Gates is still the same anti-trust monster he was in the 90s.

I recently switched from Windows to Kubuntu for my gaming machine. It works pretty well, and all of the games that I want to play are supported. Proton gets you pretty far, and many games these days even have native Linux versions.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by pessimizer »

Shows that antitrust law isn't real. The government wasted millions on chasing Microsoft over IE, and Microsoft isn't even scared to use the OS to force users to use Edge. They've been as far down the path as US regulation goes, and came out of it fearless.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by whelp_24 »

reaperducer wrote: post #130
hospitalJail wrote: post #86

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Apple sells the ability to be part of an 'in-group'. People don't buy their phones for their computing abilities, they do it to have access to other Apple users. Its a psychology trick that took decades of marketing to pull off, but they are deeply entrenched as someone's identity. These users have a religious devotion and will defend them, because an attack on Apple is an attack on them and their group. If you don't…

Apple sells the ability to be part of an 'in-group'. People don't buy their phones for their computing abilities, they do it to have access to other Apple users. This reads like the whining of a 14-year-old standing in a dark corner during the school dance. Translation: "Look at me! I'm different! I'm so very counter-culture. People like Apple products, so I'm going to pretend it's a problem with the people and not o…

I mean that is exactly what happened more or less. Apple made their phones a status symbol, and locked in users to their ecosystem. And now, even if you don't care about being cool you care about imessage and airdrop with friends.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by acdha »

dietr1ch wrote: post #153
wongarsu wrote: post #27

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Google has an equally annoying crusade against anything that isn't Chrome. Visit google.com with Edge (on desktop) and you immediately get a popup on the top right "Google recommends using Chrome. Built for Windows. Easily search on Google with the fast, secure browser". As if there was any material difference between the browsers. We need a comeback of antitrust enforcement with teeth to get both Microsoft and Googl…

I'd say it's far better because messing at the OS level is straight out evil. On Firefox I can stand the suggestion to use Chrome when I use google, I can even block it with uBlock, but haven't really bothered to. Now, when they keep tweaking my OS settings, and use every upgrade as the excuse to reset my browser settings over and over, then I get mad. When I get ads on my start menu too. That's why I don't use windo…

I agree in general but Google has done things like let YouTube be slow in non-Chrome browsers or “accidentally” break GCP logins or Meet for months at a time.

Re: Outlook now ignores Windows' Default Browser and opens links in Edge by default

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Post by vxNsr »

While obnoxious, they’re not doing anything truly nefarious under the hood: they’re just prepending every link with “edge://“ to open edge. This functionality was available to basically every single app since apps have become a thing, it might be interesting if other apps decided to force open chrome in response…
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